The document also instructs staffers to check if a story
is headlining on mainstream outlets like CNN, BBC, Fox News, and The New
York Times before assigning it “national-level” importance. This is in
stark contrast to the company’s outward claim that its Trending News feature
merely reflects what’s currently trending among its userbase.

This follows a week of damaging reports from anonymous
sources at the company, who told Gizmodo that members of Facebook’s Trending
News feature, which is intended to reflect only the most popular news topics
being discussed on Facebook, routinely discriminated
against conservative news sources.

According to The Guardian, the lesson of
the latest leak is clear. Facebook, once the centre of a supposedly
people-powered social media revolution, is now starting to behave like a
traditional mainstream media outlet. Its news operation is “now akin to a
traditional media organization,” says The Guardian.

In a statement to the newspaper, Facebook vice-president
Justin Osofsky maintained that it did not discriminate politically.

The guidelines demonstrate that we have a series of
checks and balances in place to help surface the most important popular
stories, regardless of where they fall on the ideological spectrum. Facebook
does not allow or advise our reviewers to systematically discriminate against
sources of any political origin, period. What these guidelines show is that
we’ve approached this responsibly and with the goal of creating a high-quality
product – in the hopes of delivering a meaningful experience for the people who
use our service.

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Erskine B. Bowles
is a director at Facebook, a co-chair
for the National Commission on Fiscal
Responsibility and Reform, a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), and was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.

Note: Paul Ryan is a member
of the National Commission on Fiscal
Responsibility and Reform, and a member & speaker for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Paul
Ryan is a member of the National
Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, and a member & speaker
for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Erskine B. Bowles
is a co-chair for the National
Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, a director at Facebook, a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), and was a
funder for the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Sean N.
Parker Foundation was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the Entertainment Industry Foundation.

Sean
Parker is the president of the Sean
N. Parker Foundation, a friend of John
Perry Barlow, was the president of Facebook,
and a contributor for the Americans for
Responsible Solutions.

John Perry Barlow
is a friend of Sean Parker, and was
a lyricist for the Grateful Dead.

Bob
Weir is the founder of the Grateful
Dead, and a member of the Bohemian
Club.

Mickey
Hart was a drummer for the Grateful
Dead, and is a member of the Bohemian
Club.

George H.W. Bush
is a member of the Bohemian Club,
and a member of the Burning Tree Club.

John A. Boehner is
a member of the Burning Tree Club,
and was a member & speaker for the U.S.
House of Representatives.

Paul
Ryan is a member & speaker for the U.S.
House of Representatives, and a member of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

Henry A. Kissinger is a member of the Bohemian Club, a director at the
American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a friend of Michael R. Bloomberg & Arianna Huffington, and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).

Michael R.
Bloomberg is a friend of Henry A.
Kissinger, and was a contributor for the Americans for Responsible Solutions.

Henry A. Kissinger is a friend of Arianna Huffington & Michael
R. Bloomberg, a member of the Bohemian
Club, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Bob
Weir is a member of the Bohemian
Club, and the founder of the Grateful
Dead.

John Perry Barlow
is was a lyricist for the Grateful Dead,
and a friend of Sean Parker.

Sean
Parker is a friend of John Perry
Barlow, the president of the Sean N.
Parker Foundation, was the president of Facebook, and a contributor for the Americans for Responsible Solutions.

Erskine B. Bowles
is a director at Facebook, a co-chair
for the National Commission on Fiscal
Responsibility and Reform, a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), and was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.

Mickey
Hart was a drummer for the Grateful
Dead, and is a member of the Bohemian
Club.

George H.W. Bush
is a member of the Bohemian Club,
and a member of the Burning Tree Club.

John A. Boehner is
a member of the Burning Tree Club,
and was a member & speaker for the U.S.
House of Representatives.

Paul
Ryan is a member & speaker for the U.S.
House of Representatives, and a member of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

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Rev. Sam Sewell, is Director of Best Self USA, a Pastoral Psychotherapist, serves on the faculty of Naples Community Hospital as an instructor for Clinical Pastoral Education, President of the Theological Center in Naples, a member of Mensa where he serves as Gifted Youth Coordinator, a U.S. Navy Veteran, and a Member of the Association For Intelligence Officers. He is a frequent commentator on mental health and religious issues.His award winning research on family issues is published in several languages. Member of Sigma Delta Chi Honor Society

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"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men."- St. Augustine

"A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous, and then dismissed as trivial, until finally it becomes what everybody knows." -

William James

"This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men." --Ronald Reagan

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."-- Edward Abbey

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."John Stuart Mill

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." ~~~George Washington

"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Conservatives are enemies of the government. Liberals are enemies of the nation because they are not enemies of the government."Aristotle the Hun

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"Albert Einstein

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain." ANON

"That government is best which governs least."Thomas Paine

“A nation that substitutes emotion and empathy for rational thought will eventually digress into the Dark Ages,”Congressman Steve King (R-IA),

INTEGRITY: The highest courage is to dare to be ourself in the face of adversity. Choosing ethics over convenience and truth over popularity means there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

They may be more likely to go to Heaven for good intentions yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.~ C. S. Lewis

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." ANON

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